Jon Jones will defend his light heavyweight title against Glover Teixeira, but the fight isn’t happening when everyone thought it was.

UFC President Dana White, on a Monday call with media members, said Jones (19-1 MMA, 13-1 UFC) and Teixeira (22-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC) will not be headlining the UFC 169 Super Bowl weekend card in New Jersey, as previously had been announced.

“That was never, ever a done deal,” White said. “That’s going to be later. That was never a done deal. Our (public relations) people put it out, and they shouldn’t have.”

White would not elaborate on reasons behind the bout being pushed from early February to later in the year, other than to say “the timing didn’t work out.”

He did, however, say the fight was likely to happen in March, instead. White also said Alexander Gustafsson (15-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC) is expected to fight around the same time, likely in Sweden or in London, and provided Jones and Gustafsson each win, “they 100 percent will fight next.”

Jones and Gustafsson fought in September in the UFC 165 main event in Toronto, with Jones taking a unanimous decision in what was considered an instant classic. Talk turned to the possibility of an instant rematch, but not long after, news broke that Jones preferred to fight Teixeira next before a potential rematch with Gustafsson.

Teixeira was named the next No. 1 contender in September after his second-round knockout of Ryan Bader in Brazil. By the time he fights Jones on Super Bowl weekend, it will have been nearly nine years since he most recently lost, a unanimous decision to current UFC fighter Ed Herman in Oregon. Since then, the Brazilian, a longtime training partner of former UFC champ Chuck Liddell, has rattled off 20 straight wins.

The UFC’s annual Super Bowl weekend show typically is in Las Vegas, but this year heads to New Jersey on Feb. 1 at Prudential Center in Newark. The NFL’s title game is the next day at MetLife Stadium in nearby East Rutherford.

Initially, Jones-Teixeira was expected to headline the card, and a heavyweight bout between former UFC champ Frank Mir (16-8 MMA, 14-8 UFC) and former Strikeforce champ Alistair Overeem (36-13 MMA, 1-2 UFC) was moved from UFC 167 in November to UFC 169, and now is the only fight scheduled for the card.

A new event date and location for the Jones-Teixeira title fight is not yet known.

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